Multiagent Diffusion and Distributed Optimization

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 169-176

  Tsui, Kwok Ching ^a   Liu, Jiming ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autonomy oriented computation; Diffusion model; Multiagent system; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING; COMMUNICATION; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

AUTONOMY ORIENTED COMPUTATION; DIFFUSION MODELS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1142305173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860601.860603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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